<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is appealing to international donors for $615,000 to step up its efforts to protect the reproductive health and safety of survivors of Tropical Storm Noel in the Dominican Republic.</p>

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK</strong> – A new survey released by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that more than half of all women in Lofa County, northern Liberia, reported at least one incident of sexual violence during the most recent conflict (1999-2003), while nearly 90 per cent reported at least one incident of physical violence.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>HYDERABAD, India</strong> — Asia is moving too slowly in reducing maternal deaths, enabling young people to avoid HIV and making family planning more accessible, regional experts, advocates and activists agreed today.</p>

<p align="left"> <span class="bodytext"> <strong>HYDERABAD, India/UNITED NATIONS, New York, 29 October 2007</strong> — Prenatal son selection in several Asian countries is likely to have severe social consequences in coming years, according to a new series of studies commissioned by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.</span> </p>

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>LONDON</strong>—Strong new pledges of commitment to invest in women’s health came from donors, government officials, corporations, foundations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at closing sessions of the landmark Women Deliver Conference, which sought to mobilize political will and investment to reduce pregnancy-related deaths and disabilities worldwide.</p>

CHISINAU, Moldova — Relief has come for women living in regions suffering from the severe drought of 2007, which has already affected 80 per cent of this country.

<p align="left"> <strong>LONDON</strong> – Maternal deaths and unwanted pregnancies can be cut dramatically in countries around the globe after the British Government today pledged £100 million to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to achieve universal access to reproductive health. </p>

UNITED NATIONS, New York—The tragic fact that one woman still dies every single minute from complications of pregnancy and childbirth will be the focus of a global conference in London this week.

<p align="left" class="bodytext"> <strong>GENEVA/NEW YORK</strong> — The world’s maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>MACAO, China</strong>—Confronting the unprecedented ageing of their populations, many Asian governments are formulating plans to meet the economic, social and health needs of older people.</p>

<p align="left"> <strong>UNITED NATIONS, New York</strong> – The landmark <a href="http://www.womendeliver.org/">Women Deliver</a> conference will bring some of the United Nations’ most high-powered leaders to London in October to further the Millennium Development Goals of curbing preventable pregnancy-related deaths of mothers and newborns.</p>

<p align="left"> <span class="bodytext"> <strong>GENEVA</strong> — Today, United Nations health sector partners, including UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for $84.8 million to assist an estimated 2.2 million Iraqis who have fled the ongoing violence and instability in Iraq to neighbouring countries.</span> </p>